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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event ANC78DAH11

1978-09-04 TALKEETNA, Alaska, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N3380M

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

PIPER PA-12

Year of manufacture

1947 · 31 years old at event

Engine

LYCOMING 0-320 SERIES (180 hp)

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19770816

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A3B5EB

Registrant of record

SKAGGS JAY D

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N3380M Piper PA-12 None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

PIPER PA-12 · N3380M

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Airplane

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Night

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

C0

Operator type

D

Kind of flying

B0

Weather at impact

Sky

UNKNOWN/NOT REPORTED

Aircraft history

Serial number

0000012-2227

Total time

2,730 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

832

Age

38

Investigator remarks

AC DEPARTING FROM GRAVEL BAR.

Cause factors

64/A/35 A
PILOT IN COMMAND SELECTED UNSUITABLE TERRAIN Cause — pilot/personnel action
83/J/F J
TERRAIN ROUGH/UNEVEN Joint cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 3046. Source file NTSB_1978_3_3046.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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